Chris O’Dowd reunites with “Moone Boy” co-star for brand new Irish present
Chris O’Dowd is reuniting along with his “Moone Boy” co-star for a model new present.
Roscommon native and Hollywood star O’Dowd is greatest identified in Eire for his smash hit sequence “Moone Boy,” the place he performed the imaginary good friend of a unusual younger boy (David Rawle) from the city of Boyle.
David Rawle and Chris O’Dowd in “Moone Boy.”
With the sequence off the air since 2015, David and Chris will probably be showing in “Small City Large Story,” which is ready to be launched subsequent 12 months on Sky.
The six-part sequence tells the story of the fictional city of Drumbán, a rural village of rattled misfits on the border of Eire, and what occurs when a Hollywood manufacturing rolls into city and throws a highlight on a secret that’s been saved hidden for many years.
The star-studded present options “Mad Males’s” Christina Hendricks, “Home of the Dragon’s” Paddy Considine, and Eileen Walsh, who lately appeared in “Small Issues Like These” alongside Cillian Murphy.
The locals in The White Ridge bar, a quintessential Irish pub on the coronary heart of the village. A gathering place for a band of Drumbánian oddballs, together with Keith McCurdle (David Wilmot), Barbara the butcher (Michelle Forbes), Matt Magee (Peter McGann), and barkeep Shelly McGoldrick (Evanne Kilgallon). (Sky TV)
“It’s popping out in February on Sky, and it’s like a sci-fi comedy drama about this barely meta idea of this big Hollywood manufacturing coming to this small city in rural Eire.
“It reveals some secrets and techniques which were buried because the millennium, and all types of shenanigans.
“It’s a superb script and a mad concept for a TV present, and it’s obtained a solid together with Eileen Walsh, Paddy Considine and Christina Hendricks. It was simply such a pleasure to work with Chris once more after so a few years, and we labored collectively so properly once more,” David informed the Sunday World.
Wendy Patterson (Christina Hendricks), an area lady who discovered success as a TV producer in Los Angeles returns to Drumbán after over 20 years, having left underneath one thing of a cloud. Again within the chaotic microcosm of Drumbán, this time with a movie crew in tow, Wendy is caught between her previous and her epic new manufacturing. (Sky TV)
After breaking out onto the scene as a teenager, David has gone on to star in Australian/Irish TV present “Drop Useless Bizarre,” in addition to the 2020 comedy movie “Pixie.”
Reflecting on “Moone Boy,” he stated: “It utterly modified my life. I believe I had by no means thought of performing as one thing that was attainable — engaged on a movie set, or watching your self on telly.
“That world simply felt too far faraway from something that appeared achievable, after which to abruptly be there, and to be doing it, and be having fun with this as a lot as I did, and to be having as a lot enjoyable, and to make buddies for all times, that was such an extremely particular expertise.
“It gave me a confidence in myself as an individual, and it was from initially this factor type of falling into my lap.”
He added: “That took me a number of years to understand, as a result of it simply felt too fortunate that the very first thing that I attempted…. I used to be like, I’ll must attempt different issues certainly? However no, it was the factor that I saved coming again to.
“It’s been fantastic to have had such a constructive first expertise in a artistic world that may be very difficult and might be very precarious and unsure.”
*This text was initially printed on Additional.ie.
